Yang Cong played again, and the fold was passed to the General Administration, and Zhao Wenhua naturally had to take a good look at it to see if there was any unfavorable content in it.

After watching this performance, Zhao Wenhua couldn't help crying and laughing, Yang Cong was crying poor!

That's right, Yang Cong's performance is mainly crying poor, because he is so happy and crazy recruiting, so that he can't make ends meet, and the Yang family's money is about to be lost by him.

Of course, this is just Zhao Wenhua's opinion, Yang Cong did not say that he was so happy in the fold, and it was "true" that the Yang family's money was about to be lost by him, at least it was written in the fold.

The overall meaning of this twist and turn is that Yang Cong is crying that he did not hesitate to pay out of his own pocket to supplement the military expenses for the sake of the Ming Dynasty and the people on the southeast coast, but as a result, he found that the Yang family's savings for decades were about to be emptied by him, and he couldn't bear it anymore at this time, so he wanted to disarm, crazy disarmament, and cut most of the more than 60,000 people gathered together, leaving only 30,000 elites.

This guy is really a stunned young man, with more than 60,000 horses, and his military expenditure in a month is more than 200,000 taels, and he is still frantically building warships, and in a month, it is also a lot of expenses.

Of course, Zhao Wenhua knew that the Imperial Court of the Southeast Cleanup of Pirates and Japanese Invaders did not provide military expenses, and this military expenditure was deducted from the Yang family's salt income, but he just didn't expect that Yang Cong was so stupid, and the garrison guards he convened were all paid according to the standards of the elite of the border army, and he also paid out of his own pocket to build new warships.

That's not how money is spent!

He also knew that Yang Congzheng was colluding with Wang Zhi and was preparing to monopolize Dongying's business.

However, he didn't know that Yang Cong made so much money in Dongying, because he was only the son-in-law of Yuyao Xie's family, and he was not very clear about the profits of the maritime business, and the way the maritime tycoons controlled the maritime trade was not the same as Yang Cong.

Maritime tycoons control maritime trade by raising maritime merchants, and each maritime tycoon has almost twenty or thirty maritime merchants under them, who do not participate in specific operations, and the trade links are handled by the maritime merchants themselves, and they only charge "protection fees".

To put it simply, if a merchant wants to engage in maritime trade, he must obtain the consent of the maritime giants, and pay 10,000 and 20,000 taels of profits to the maritime giants every year.

Of course, this collection of protection fees is not the same as directly participating in the operation, Yuyao Xie can also collect about 500,000 taels of protection fees a year, while Yang Cong can earn more than 2 million taels of profits just by relying on Wang Zhi and Hong Tiezhu's fleet!

Zhao Wenhua naturally didn't know this, he thought that Yang Cong would be able to earn a profit of more than 200,000 taels a year at most through Dongying's business, because the sea ships under Wang Zhi's hands were less than half of the number of sea ships in the hands of more than 20 maritime merchants under Yuyao Xie's hands.

This idiot, in order to show his ability, actually recruited troops frantically and emptied his own savings, which is a good thing, now I know that I can't bear it, see if you can still do it.

Zhao Wenhua gloated, so he sorted out the folds as they were, and ordered someone to send them to the palace.

Xia Yan was really startled when he saw the twists.

My God, more than 200,000 taels of military expenses a month, Yang Cong, you kid can really toss!

His incorruptibility is not pretended, let alone 200,000 taels at this time, even if it is 200,000 taels, he can't take it out, the expenditure of more than 200,000 taels a month is already an astronomical amount in his opinion, you know, the tens of thousands of officials in the Ming Dynasty add up to more than 300,000 taels a month!

Nima, Yang Cong is simply a madman!

Fortunately, this money doesn't need to be paid by the court, as for your guy emptying out his family, that's your business, and it has nothing to do with the court.

Xia Yan was stunned for a while, and then wrote on the ticket: The spirit is commendable and worthy of appreciation.

He is not as vicious as Yan Song, although Yang Cong spends money indiscriminately and empties his own family, it is also for the sake of Da Ming, he feels that he should at least praise it to show comfort, if he is Yan Song, he will definitely sneer a few words.

After the cabinet wrote the vote, the decision was finally handed over to the emperor for ruling.

When Jiajing saw this twist, he was also a little crying and laughing, this Yang Cong, what do people say, this guy is too eager for quick success.

He really didn't pay attention to military spending at first, because all military expenses were deducted by Yang Cong himself from the Yang family's salt income, which was a bit self-financing, and he didn't bother to use his brains for this military expenditure.

He really didn't expect that at this time, the military expenditure in the southeast would reach more than 200,000 taels a month, this guy is too fierce, if this military expenditure is borne by the imperial court, most of the officials' salaries will not be paid.

Fortunately, fortunately, all this money was paid by the Yang family, and the money was not spent in vain.

Judging from Yang Cong's twists and turns, although this guy is a little eager for quick success, he has done quite well in clearing out pirates and pirates.

At this time, pirates and pirates basically did not dare to land and plunder, as for the sea, as long as the fleets of the five provinces are all complete, and a few large-scale encirclement and suppression are organized, the pirates and pirates will basically be extinct.

This guy has a good ability to do things, but he is too impulsive, but fortunately, this time he is tossing the money of the Yang family instead of the money of the imperial court, and if he tosses it all, he will toss it all.

Jiajing felt that there was nothing wrong with Xia Yan's ticket drafting, and people should be praised for spending so much money for Daming to show comfort.

He shook his head and smiled bitterly for a while, and then ordered someone to draw up a decree, praised Yang Cong, and agreed to Yang Cong's disarmament request without hesitation.

Is Yang Cong playing to cry poor?

Of course not.

His purpose is actually mentioned in passing in the compromise: the naval warships in Zhejiang and Fujian are dilapidated and unusable, so Weichen has to supervise the construction of new warships to replace them.

What he meant was that the old warships of the sailors in Zhejiang and Fujian could not be used, and new warships must be built to replace them, as for how to deal with the old warships, he did not mention it, he just wanted Jiajing to subconsciously think that if they could not be used, they would be scrapped, and those old warships would gradually disappear in the records of the Daming Sailors in the future.

Jiajing's reply really did not surprise him, the expenses of more than 60,000 horses and horses were impossible for the imperial court to take over, if he wanted to continue to hold on, the only way to do this "stunned young man" was to agree to his request and disarm!

He had already had a complete plan, and after receiving the decree, they began to plan for disarmament.

First of all, starting from Fujian, the infantry soldiers were first reduced by 5,000, because at this time, almost all the elite sailors in Zhejiang and Fujian were in Fujian, and pirates and pirates did not dare to come to spread wilderness at all, so there was naturally no danger on land.

Of course, he couldn't get rid of all the foot soldiers at once, and if the pirates and pirates received this news, they would definitely try their best to land and plunder, so this disarmament could only be done step by step.

Immediately afterwards, he cut down Nan Zhili's foot soldiers by 5,000, because there was already a fleet of new warships there, and there was no big problem in terms of safety.

Then Zhejiang, Guangdong, and Shandong are the next ones, in short, where the fleet of new warships is equipped, half of the infantry will be removed.

In this way, the infantry will gradually be reduced to about 25,000, and as for when the number of troops will be reduced to 15,000, it will naturally have to wait until the pirates and pirates are completely wiped out, after all, he is not really out of money at this time, and his main goal is not to disarm.